Understanding the Earth / edited by Geoff Brown, Chris Hawkesworth, and Chris Wilson.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992.Description: xii, 551 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN: - 0521370205
- 0521427401 (pbk.)
- 550 20
- QE 26.2 .U53 1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Ian G. Gass -- 1. Exploration of the Solar System / Peter W. Francis -- 2. The origin of the Earth / Stuart Ross Taylor -- 3. The Earth's interior / Don L. Anderson -- 4. Experimental petrology: Earth materials science / Peter J. Wyllie -- 5. Magma generation in the Earth / Stephen J. Sparks -- 6. The interpretation of magmatic evolution / Keith G. Cox -- 7. Geological time / Chris J. Hawkesworth and Peter van Calsteren -- 8. The continents / Keith O'Nions -- 9. Seafloor spreading and plate tectonics / Tjeerd H. van Andel -- 10. Plate tectonics and continental drift / Alan G. Smith -- 11. Plate tectonics and hydrothermal ore deposits / Michael J. Russell -- 12. Metamorphism and fluids / Alan B. Thompson -- 13. Seismic reflection profiling and the structure of the continental lithosphere / Simon L. Klemperer and Carolyn Peddy -- 14. Deformation of the continental crust / Philip England -- 15. The formation of sedimentary basins / Tony Watts -- 16. Clastic sediments / Roger G. Walker.
17. Limestones through time / Maurice E. Tucker -- 18. Hydrocarbon source rocks / Ralf Littke and Dietrich H. Welte -- 19. Event stratigraphy: a dynamic view of the sedimentary record / Adolf Seilacher -- 20. Sequence stratigraphy: an introduction / Chris Wilson -- 21. Intraplate stress and sedimentary basin evolution / Sierd Cloetingh -- 22. The early evolution of life / Simon Conway Morris -- 23. Fossils and evolutionary theory / Peter W. Skelton -- 24. Palaeoclimatology / Eric J. Barron -- 25. Volcanic hazards / Michael R. Rampino.